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We're looking for someone interested in learning/helping out with Rails and/or mobile development at Zazu -- where we're building the Smartest Damn Alarm Clock

by speek 16y ago

We're looking for someone interested in learning/helping out with Rails and/or mobile development at Zazu -- where we're building the Smartest Damn Alarm Clock (but we're so much more than that). My personal specialty is in Rails+Mongodb and Android, but we've got an iPhone app in the mix really soon. We do a lot of NLP and big data number crunchey stuff, too, if you're looking to work with that. We've had a few interns this year, and I love working with good people who are willing to learn and build great shit. I'm the CTO of Zazu. Get in touch with me at marc@getzazu.com We're based out of Boston, but you can work from anywhere.

speek 16y ago
Lemme rephrase something (comment edit window timed out): The end goal of Zazu is to build Jarvis from Iron Man. We have delusions of grandeur, but we will not rest until it's done. The current iteration of the product is an Android application that replaces the built-in alarm clock with an alarm clock that we believe to be more intelligent: it pulls whatever information you find important -- like your RSS feeds, your calendar, your email, your twitter stream -- and reads that information to you using a Text-To-Speech engine. We're working with a few big brands to create a new form of interactive marketing/advertising and we promise that we're only going to be providing relevant information to our users... so y'all won't be blasted with Colon Blow advertisements 1000x a day. We're going to be leaving the morning space fairly soon, meaning we'll integrate with your calendar to let you know what you need to regarding where you are and where you need to be (both physically and metaphorically). We're trying to transform the moment of alert into a moment of informed decision making. We'll be looking at emails and other areas that involve alerting and decision making, too.

by speek 16y ago

speek 16y ago

Lemme rephrase something (comment edit window timed out): The end goal of Zazu is to build Jarvis from Iron Man. We have delusions of grandeur, but we will not rest until it's done. The current iteration of the product is an Android application that replaces the built-in alarm clock with an alarm clock that we believe to be more intelligent: it pulls whatever information you find important -- like your RSS feeds, your calendar, your email, your twitter stream -- and reads that information to you using a Text-To-Speech engine. We're working with a few big brands to create a new form of interactive marketing/advertising and we promise that we're only going to be providing relevant information to our users... so y'all won't be blasted with Colon Blow advertisements 1000x a day. We're going to be leaving the morning space fairly soon, meaning we'll integrate with your calendar to let you know what you need to regarding where you are and where you need to be (both physically and metaphorically). We're trying to transform the moment of alert into a moment of informed decision making. We'll be looking at emails and other areas that involve alerting and decision making, too.